A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester..

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd l….

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me..

Blessedness is within us all..

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater c….

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out..

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because w….

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free..

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed..

I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for "Mercy Is ..." we all got in one mind because the song is delicate; it….

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life..

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up..

Grief isn't all tears..

My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This pro….

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really….

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made..

It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanist….

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor..

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that..

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself..

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about do….